The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 37:4

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And when (literally, and) his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they (literally, and they) hated him,—as Esau hated Jacob (Genesis 27:41; cf. Genesis 49:23)—and could not speak peaceably unto him—literally, they were not able to speak of him for peace, i e.

they could not address him in such a way as to wish him well; they could not offer him the customary salutation of Shalom, or Peace.

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